david bennett: but for ny people in the world, their demands in terms of health are mu more modest. the people who face hunger, who face the threat of disease constantly, for them, survival is really health. to see the very quiet, subtle way in which communitiescan puly quite remarkable ife have that very broad definition, then everything becomes health. if we look only at certain narrowly defined diseases, we miss somehow the whole interaction that makes up the human being. the whole interaction that makes up the health of a human being begins with a genetic map. dean hamer: dna is like a blueprint that determines not t only our physical bodie, but also, at least in part, our brains. and our brains, of course, are what control our behavior, and so, although it surprises some people, our genes also play a role in the way we think about things, the way we feel about things, and the things that we do. so we have 100,000 genes, and all of us have to have two copies of each gene, one from each parent. each time they're being transmitted from parent to offspring, the genes have to be cop

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